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Bob Flanagan
Bob Flanagan
Born	December 26, 1952; New York City
Died	January 4, 1996 (aged 43); Long Beach, California
Resting place	Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery
Nationality	American
Known for	sadomasochism, performance art, cystic fibrosis activism
Notable work	Why, Visiting Hours, SICK
Spouse	Sheree Rose (1989–1996)

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Bob Flanagan (December 26, 1952 – January 4, 1996) was an American performance artist and writer known for his work on sadomasochism and lifelong struggle with cystic fibrosis.

Biography[edit]

Early life[edit]

Flanagan was born in New York City on December 26, 1952, and grew up in Costa Mesa, California, with his mother, Kathy; father, Robert; brothers John and Tim; and sister, Patricia. In childhood, Flanagan was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis. His sister, Patricia, died at age 21 of the same illness, which also claimed the life of second sister, who died soon after birth. At age 14, in 1967, Flanagan was named the first poster child for the North Orange County chapter of the National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation.^[1]

Flanagan graduated from Costa Mesa High School,^[2] and studied literature at California State University, Long Beach and the University of California, Irvine.^[when?] He moved to Los Angeles in 1976.^[3]

Death[edit]

On January 4, 1996, Flanagan died from complications of cystic fibrosis at 43.^[3] He was survived by his wife and close artistic collaborator Sheree Rose.^[4] His body now lies in the chapel of Forest Lawn Cemetery.^[5]

The final years of Flanagan's life, including his death, are the subject of the Kirby Dick documentary SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist. Flanagan's participation in the film was contingent upon his death being part of the completed project.^[6]

Career[edit]

Flanagan began reading his poems around Southern California in the mid-1970s, and was part of the poetry community at Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center. He published his first book, The Kid is the Man, with Bombshelter Press in 1978.^[7]

Flanagan met Sheree Rose in 1980,^[8] and collaborated closely with her for the rest of his life. Through the 1980s, Flanagan and Rose focused on BDSM community education and organizing, and were founding members of the Los Angeles chapter of the Society of Janus. Their work in performance art began with the 1989 piece Nailed, presented in conjunction with the release of the RE/Search publication Modern Primitives.^[9] In Nailed, Flanagan nailed his penis and scrotum to a board while singing "If I Had a Hammer."^[10]

Visiting Hours, first shown at the Santa Monica Museum of Art in 1992, combined text, video, and live performance, and explored the convergence of illness and SM. It was Flanagan's most widely toured museum exhibition. In the center of the gallery, Flanagan lay in a hospital bed and interacted with museum visitors for the duration of the exhibit.^[11] According to curator Laura Trippi, "The installation is designed like a crazy stage set of a children's residential hospital, replete with a torture chamber lurking amidst the institutional cheer."^[12]

In 1996, Flanagan received the Steve Maidhof Award for National or International Work from the National Leather Association International.^[13]

Music videos[edit]

Flanagan being tortured in the almost universally banned Nine Inch Nails music video for "Happiness in Slavery".

Flanagan is featured in the widely banned music video for the song "Happiness in Slavery" by Nine Inch Nails. In the video, a nude Flanagan is bound to a mechanical torture device which pierces his flesh, pulls on his nipples and penis with pincers, crushes his genitals with a paddle, and ultimately kills him. Apart from his onscreen "death", all of the acts inflicted on Flanagan in the video are unsimulated.

In 1993, Flanagan appeared in the video for the Danzig song "It's Coming Down". In the uncensored version of the video (near the ending), Flanagan pierces his upper and lower lips together and then he hammers a nail through the head of his penis before bleeding on the lens of the camera recording him.

Flanagan also had a small role in Godflesh's "Crush My Soul" video, as an upside-down suspended Christ, hoisted on to the ceiling of a church by Sheree Rose.

Selected works[edit]

Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose, Santa Monica Museum of Art and the New Museum, 1994^[14] In Visiting Hours, Flanagan transformed a space at the Santa Monica Museum of Art into a medical clinic, complete with waiting room furniture, potted plants and copies of Highlights For Children magazine.^[15]
A Matter of Choice, in collaboration with Sheree Rose, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, July 1992^[16]
Bob Flanagan at the Movies, Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, April 18, 1992^[16]
Bob Flanagan's Sick, Art in the Anchorage, New York, August 1991^[16] Sick is a voice-over reading the actual ''contract'' that the two (Sheree Rose and Bob Flanagan) drew up, which details their mistress/slave agreement. ^[10]
Tell Me What to Do: An Improvisational Reading and Performance, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, August 14, 1987^[16]

Partial bibliography[edit]

The Kid Is the Man (1978)
The Wedding of Everything (1983)
Slave Sonnets (1986)
Fuck Journal (Hanuman Books, 1988)
A Taste of Honey with David Trinidad (1990)
Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (1993) (interviews)
Pain Journal (1996)^[17]
The Book of Medicine (manuscript, never published)

References[edit]

^ McRuer, Robert (2006). Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: NYU Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780814761090.
^ Curtis, Cathy (May 12, 1993). "Flanagan Finds Depicting Pain Is a Pleasure : Art: Survivor of cystic fibrosis and his lover give a 'toned-down' presentation of masochistic works at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^ ^a ^b Smith, Roberta (6 January 1996). "Bob Flanagan, 43, Performer Who Fashioned Art From His Pain". New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
^ Levy, Emanuel (8 February 1997). "Review: 'Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'". Variety.
^ Kauffman, Linda S. (January 1998). "Sadomedicine: Bob Flanagan's 'Visiting Hours' and Last Rites". Performance Research. 3 (3): 33–40. doi:10.1080/13528165.1998.10871624. ISSN 1352-8165.
^ SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist DVD Commentary Track
^ Mohr, Bill (January 4, 2016). "Bob Flanagan – On the 20th anniversary of his death". Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^ "Sheree Rose". New World Writing. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2018.
^ Takemoto, Tina (2009). "Love is still possible in this junky world: Conversation with Sheree Rose about her life with Bob Flanagan". Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 19: 95–111. doi:10.1080/07407700802655588. S2CID 192240498.
^ ^a ^b Sandahl, Carrie (2000). "Bob Flanagan: Taking It Like a Man". Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism: 97–105.
^ Reynolds, Dawn (2007). "Disability and BDSM: Bob Flanagan and the case for sexual rights". Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 4: 40–52. doi:10.1525/srsp.2007.4.1.40. S2CID 144664964.
^ "Exhibitions: Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose". Retrieved January 7, 2018.
^ "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
^ "Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose". The New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 26 July 2016.
^ Flanagan, Bob; Rose, Sheree; Rugoff, Ralph (1995). "Visiting Hours". Grand Street (53): 65–73. doi:10.2307/25007885. ISSN 0734-5496.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Flanagan, Bob (1993). Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist. San Francisco, CA: Re/Search.
^ "Bob Flanagan - Pain Journal". vv.arts.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-04.

External links[edit]

[1] McRuer, Robert (2006). Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability. New York: NYU Press. p. 187. ISBN 9780814761090.

[2] Curtis, Cathy (May 12, 1993). "Flanagan Finds Depicting Pain Is a Pleasure : Art: Survivor of cystic fibrosis and his lover give a 'toned-down' presentation of masochistic works at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 7, 2018.

[nytimes.com-3] Smith, Roberta (6 January 1996). "Bob Flanagan, 43, Performer Who Fashioned Art From His Pain". New York Times. Retrieved 26 July 2016.

[4] Levy, Emanuel (8 February 1997). "Review: 'Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'". Variety.

[5] Kauffman, Linda S. (January 1998). "Sadomedicine: Bob Flanagan's 'Visiting Hours' and Last Rites". Performance Research. 3 (3): 33–40. doi:10.1080/13528165.1998.10871624. ISSN 1352-8165.

[commentary-6] SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist DVD Commentary Track

[mohr-7] Mohr, Bill (January 4, 2016). "Bob Flanagan – On the 20th anniversary of his death". Retrieved January 7, 2018.

[newworldwriting-8] "Sheree Rose". New World Writing. 6 January 2011. Retrieved 7 January 2018.

[takemoto-9] Takemoto, Tina (2009). "Love is still possible in this junky world: Conversation with Sheree Rose about her life with Bob Flanagan". Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory. 19: 95–111. doi:10.1080/07407700802655588. S2CID 192240498.

[sandahl-10] Sandahl, Carrie (2000). "Bob Flanagan: Taking It Like a Man". Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism: 97–105.

[11] Reynolds, Dawn (2007). "Disability and BDSM: Bob Flanagan and the case for sexual rights". Sexuality Research and Social Policy. 4: 40–52. doi:10.1525/srsp.2007.4.1.40. S2CID 144664964.

[12] "Exhibitions: Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose". Retrieved January 7, 2018.

[13] "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Archived from the original on 2020-01-03. Retrieved 2020-05-08.

[14] "Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose". The New Museum Digital Archive. Retrieved 26 July 2016.

[15] Flanagan, Bob; Rose, Sheree; Rugoff, Ralph (1995). "Visiting Hours". Grand Street (53): 65–73. doi:10.2307/25007885. ISSN 0734-5496.

[Flanagan_1993-16] Flanagan, Bob (1993). Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist. San Francisco, CA: Re/Search.

[17] "Bob Flanagan - Pain Journal". vv.arts.ucla.edu. Retrieved 2016-03-04.

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 ===Early life===
 {{more citations needed section|date=November 2016}}
-Flanagan was born in [[New York City]] on December 26, 1952 and grew up in [[Costa Mesa, California]], with his mother, Kathy; father, Robert; brothers John and Tim; and sister, Patricia. In childhood, Flanagan was diagnosed with [[cystic fibrosis]]. His sister, Patricia, died at age 21 of the same illness, which also claimed the life of second sister, who died soon after birth. At age 14, in 1967, Flanagan was named the first [[poster child]] for the North [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] chapter of the [[National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation]].<ref>{{cite book |last=McRuer |first=Robert |date=2006 |title=Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3GPb2obU0gC&pg=PA187 |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |page=187|isbn=9780814761090 }}</ref>
+Flanagan was born in [[New York City]] on December 26, 1952, and grew up in [[Costa Mesa, California]], with his mother, Kathy; father, Robert; brothers John and Tim; and sister, Patricia. In childhood, Flanagan was diagnosed with [[cystic fibrosis]]. His sister, Patricia, died at age 21 of the same illness, which also claimed the life of second sister, who died soon after birth. At age 14, in 1967, Flanagan was named the first [[poster child]] for the North [[Orange County, California|Orange County]] chapter of the [[National Cystic Fibrosis Research Foundation]].<ref>{{cite book |last=McRuer |first=Robert |date=2006 |title=Crip Theory: Cultural Signs of Queerness and Disability|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V3GPb2obU0gC&pg=PA187 |location=New York |publisher=NYU Press |page=187|isbn=9780814761090 }}</ref>
 Flanagan graduated from [[Costa Mesa High School]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://articles.latimes.com/1993-05-12/entertainment/ca-34434_1_cystic-fibrosis |title=Flanagan Finds Depicting Pain Is a Pleasure : Art: Survivor of cystic fibrosis and his lover give a 'toned-down' presentation of masochistic works at Rancho Santiago College in Santa Ana.|last=Curtis|first=Cathy  |date=May 12, 1993 |website=Los Angeles Times |access-date=January 7, 2018}}</ref> and studied literature at [[California State University, Long Beach]] and the [[University of California, Irvine]].{{when|date=November 2016}} He moved to Los Angeles in 1976.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{cite news|last1=Smith|first1=Roberta|title=Bob Flanagan, 43, Performer Who Fashioned Art From His Pain|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/arts/bob-flanagan-43-performer-who-fashioned-art-from-his-pain.html|newspaper=New York Times|date=6 January 1996|access-date=26 July 2016}}</ref>
 ===Death===
-On January 4, 1996, Flanagan died from complications of [[cystic fibrosis]] at 43.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> He was survived by his wife and close artistic collaborator [[Sheree Rose]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/sick-the-life-and-death-of-bob-flanagan-supermasochist-1200448854/|title=Review: 'Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'|first=Emanuel|last=Levy|date=8 February 1997|magazine=Variety}}</ref>
+On January 4, 1996, Flanagan died from complications of [[cystic fibrosis]] at 43.<ref name="nytimes.com"/> He was survived by his wife and close artistic collaborator [[Sheree Rose]].<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://variety.com/1997/film/reviews/sick-the-life-and-death-of-bob-flanagan-supermasochist-1200448854/|title=Review: 'Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'|first=Emanuel|last=Levy|date=8 February 1997|magazine=Variety}}</ref> His body now lies in the chapel of [[Forest Lawn Cemetery (Cathedral City)|Forest Lawn Cemetery]].<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Kauffman |first=Linda S. |date=January 1998 |title=Sadomedicine: Bob Flanagan's ‘Visiting Hours’ and Last Rites |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13528165.1998.10871624 |journal=Performance Research |language=en |volume=3 |issue=3 |pages=33–40 |doi=10.1080/13528165.1998.10871624 |issn=1352-8165}}</ref>
 The final years of Flanagan's life, including his death, are the subject of the [[Kirby Dick]] documentary ''[[SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist]]''.  Flanagan's participation in the film was contingent upon his death being part of the completed project.<ref name=commentary>''SICK: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist'' DVD Commentary Track</ref>
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 Flanagan is featured in the widely [[Censorship|banned]] music video for the song "[[Happiness in Slavery]]" by [[Nine Inch Nails]]. In the video, a nude Flanagan is bound to a mechanical torture device which pierces his flesh, pulls on his nipples and penis with pincers, crushes his genitals with a paddle, and ultimately kills him. Apart from his onscreen "death", all of the acts inflicted on Flanagan in the video are unsimulated.
-In 1993, Flanagan appeared in the video for the [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] song "[[Thrall: Demonsweatlive|It's Coming Down]]". In the uncensored version of the video (near the ending), Flanagan pierces his upper and lower lips together and then he hammers a nail through the head of his penis before bleeding on the lens of the camera recording him.
+In 1993, Flanagan appeared in the video for the [[Danzig (band)|Danzig]] song "[[Thrall-Demonsweatlive|It's Coming Down]]". In the uncensored version of the video (near the ending), Flanagan pierces his upper and lower lips together and then he hammers a nail through the head of his penis before bleeding on the lens of the camera recording him.
 Flanagan also had a small role in [[Godflesh]]'s "[[Crush My Soul]]" video, as an upside-down suspended Christ, hoisted on to the ceiling of a church by [[Sheree Rose]].
 ====Selected works====
-* ''Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose'', [[Santa Monica Museum of Art]] and the [[New Museum]], 1994<ref>{{cite web|title=Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose|url=http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/251|website=The New Museum Digital Archive|access-date=26 July 2016|language=en}}</ref>
+* ''Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose'', [[Santa Monica Museum of Art]] and the [[New Museum]], 1994<ref>{{cite web|title=Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose|url=http://archive.newmuseum.org/index.php/Detail/Occurrence/Show/occurrence_id/251|website=The New Museum Digital Archive|access-date=26 July 2016|language=en}}</ref> In Visiting Hours, Flanagan transformed a space at the [[Santa Monica Museum of Art]] into a medical clinic, complete with waiting room furniture, potted plants and copies of Highlights For Children magazine.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Flanagan |first=Bob |last2=Rose |first2=Sheree |last3=Rugoff |first3=Ralph |date=1995 |title=Visiting Hours |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/25007885 |journal=Grand Street |issue=53 |pages=65–73 |doi=10.2307/25007885 |issn=0734-5496}}</ref>
 * ''A Matter of Choice'', in collaboration with Sheree Rose, [[Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions]], July 1992<ref name="Flanagan 1993">{{cite book|last=Flanagan|first=Bob|title=Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist|year=1993|publisher=Re/Search|location=San Francisco, CA}}</ref>
 * ''Bob Flanagan at the Movies'', [[Artists' Television Access]], San Francisco, April 18, 1992<ref name="Flanagan 1993"/>
-* ''Bob Flanagan's Sick'', Art in the Anchorage, New York, August 1991<ref name="Flanagan 1993"/>
+* ''Bob Flanagan's Sick'', Art in the Anchorage, New York, August 1991<ref name="Flanagan 1993"/> Sick is a voice-over reading the actual <nowiki>''</nowiki>contract<nowiki>''</nowiki> that the two ([[Sheree Rose]] and Bob Flanagan) drew up, which details their mistress/slave agreement. <ref name="sandahl" />
 * ''Tell Me What to Do: An Improvisational Reading and Performance'', [[Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center]], Venice, August 14, 1987<ref name="Flanagan 1993"/>
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 == External links ==
-* Obituary: {{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/01/06/arts/bob-flanagan-43-performer-who-fashioned-art-from-his-pain.html|title=Bob Flanagan, 43, Performer Who Fashioned Art From His Pain|newspaper=The New York Times|date=January 6, 1996|author=Roberta Smith}}
 * [http://one.usc.edu/bob-flanagan-and-sheree-rose-collection/ ONE Archives at the USC Libraries: Bob Flanagan and Sheree Rose Collection]
 * [http://vv.arts.ucla.edu/terminals/flanagan/flanagan.html Excerpts from Flanagan's ''Pain Journal'']
-* [http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0425/is_n4_v56/ai_20544724 ''Why'' (poem answering the question of Flanagan's lifestyle)]
 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080405062231/http://www.vdb.org/smackn.acgi%24artistdetail?FLANAGANB Bob Flanagan] in the [[Video Data Bank]]
-* (in French) [http://www.revue-quasimodo.org/PDFs/5%20-%20Liotard%20Bob%20Flanagan.pdf Philippe Liotard, "Bob Flanagan: ça fait du bien là où ça fait mal, ''Quasimodo'', n°5, 1999]
 * {{IMDb name|0281008}}
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+[[Category:American performance artists]]
 [[Category:Deaths from cystic fibrosis]]
+[[Category:People with cystic fibrosis]]
 [[Category:American erotica writers]]
+[[Category:Burials at Mount Sinai Memorial Park Cemetery]]
 [[Category:California State University, Long Beach alumni]]
 [[Category:University of California, Irvine alumni]]
 [[Category:Performance art in Los Angeles]]
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-[[Category:20th-century American musicians]]
 [[Category:Songwriters from California]]
 [[Category:20th-century American male writers]]
+[[Category:American writers with disabilities]]
+[[Category:20th-century American songwriters]]

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Artists	Marina Abramović Abel Azcona Chris Burden Bob Flanagan Tehching Hsieh

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Media	Mondo New York (1988 film) Kusama: Infinity (2018 film)
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Bondage and discipline B&D or B/D	Animal roleplay Bondage hood Bondage positions and methods Bondage suit Collar Equipment Erotic sexual denial Erotic tickling Forced orgasm Head bondage Hogtie bondage Human furniture In culture and media Interrogation scene Japanese bondage Law Metal bondage Mummification Organizations Positions Predicament bondage Rope bondage Self-bondage Sensation play Spreadeagle position Suspension bondage Total enclosure
Dominance and submission D&S or D/S	Ageplay Bladder desperation Body worship Boot worship Chastity Dominatrix Facesitting Fear play Female submission Feminization Male dominance Male submission Master/slave Medical fetishism Rape fantasy Forced seduction Service-oriented submission
Sadomasochism S&M or S/M	Breast torture Caning Cock and ball torture Erotic asphyxiation Erotic electrostimulation Erotic spanking Figging Impact play Knife play Play piercing Temperature play Urethral sounding Violet wand Wax play Erotic humiliation In fiction
Related topics	Consent Dungeon monitor Edgeplay Edging Feminist views on BDSM Gorean subculture International Fetish Day Kink Leathermen Leather Pride flag Limits Munch Pegging Play Play party Risk-aware consensual kink Safeword Sexual fetishism Sexual roleplay Top, bottom, switch
Writers	Laura Antoniou Pauline Réage Anne Rice Catherine Robbe-Grillet Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Ariel Sands
Commentators and theorists	Gloria Brame Patrick Califia Dossie Easton Janet Hardy Trevor Jacques Fakir Musafar Gayle Rubin
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Race	Asian fetish Ethnic pornography Sexual racism
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